Research Article

Speciation Analysis of Arsenic Compounds by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography in Combination with Inductively Coupled Plasma Dynamic Reaction Cell Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry: Application for Vietnamese Rice Samples

Table 3

Characteristics of the chromatographic separation of arsenic species on the Hamilton PRP X100 column.

No.AnalyteRetention time (min, mean value ± SD, )Resolution (mean value ± SD, )Symmetry (mean value ± SD, )W (min, mean value ± SD, )Column recovery (%, value ± SD, )

1AsB2.00 ± 0.151.51 ± 0.140.410 ± 0.03385.3 ± 1.0
2As(III)3.54 ± 0.252.97 ± 0.112.01 ± 0.270.560 ± 0.01995.6 ± 0.5
3DMA5.10 ± 0.102.47 ± 0.351.29 ± 0.180.488 ± 0.05286.7 ± 1.5
4MMA10.53 ± 0.0110.16 ± 0.260.86 ± 0.020.623 ± 0.04097.9 ± 2.1
5As(V)14.06 ± 0.035.25 ± 0.240.99 ± 0.100.842 ± 0.03298.9 ± 0.5

Resolution =  ; symmetry =  according to European Pharmacopeia.